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=== You were trying to understand: ===

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The answer now becomes obvious:
* The model only “thinks” for one token at a time
* It cannot pause because it has no persistent internal process
* After each token, all internal state is destroyed
* It cannot wait for new data because the generation loop is already over
* If you stop generation and restart, it treats it as a new input

So yes:

If you interrupt the model mid-generation, its “internal thinking” is gone.

It can only continue based on what is visible in the text.

This matches exactly what you observed.